is a film made by controversial Japanese director
Kōji Wakamatsu
was a Japanese film director who directed such ''pinku eiga'' films as and . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film ''In the Realm of the Senses'' (1976). He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film ...
in 1967. Wakamatsu's most famous film, it is based on the mass murder spree of
Richard Speck
Richard Benjamin Speck (December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991) was an American mass murderer who killed eight student nurses in their South Deering, Chicago, residence via stabbing, strangling, slashing their throats, or a combination of the th ...
in 1966.
Plot
A young man breaks into a nurses' rooming house and one-by-one kills off the nurses therein.
In the tradition of Wakamatsu's other
Pinku eiga
in its broadest sense includes almost any Japanese theatrical film that includes nudity (hence 'pink') or deals with sexual content. This encompasses everything from dramas to action thrillers and exploitation film features. The Western equiv ...
, there is much sexuality and nudity. However most of the actual murders take place off screen. Like other examples in Wakamatsu's work, the plot simplicity often feels like a "sadistic haiku".
Cast
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Jūrō Kara
is a Japanese avant-garde playwright, theatre director, author, actor, and songwriter. He was at the forefront of the ''Angura'' ("underground") theatre movement in Japan.
Career
Graduating from Meiji University, Kara formed his own theatre trou ...
as The Handsome Boy
* Keiko Koyanagi as The Head Nurse
* Miki Hayashi as Nurse A
* Shoko Kidowaki as Nurse B
* Makiko Saegusa as Nurse C
* Kyoko Yoyoi as Nurse D
* Michiko Sakamoto as The Young Girl
* Gusaku Satô as Riot Policeman
* Shûzô Tanaka as Riot Policeman
* Matajûrô Arafune as Riot Policeman
* Kentarô Aichi as Riot Policeman
Production
The film was shot in black and white in just three days, probably much of it improvised and because of the low budget, many of the actresses were not professionals.
[Sharp, p. 86]
Criticism
Like many films of this nature, ''Violated Angels'' was called anti-feminist and misogynistic by some critics. In ''Film As A Subversive Art'', a book on underground cinema,
Amos Vogel Amos Vogel ( Vogelbaum; April 18, 1921 – April 24, 2012) was a New York City cineaste and curator.
Biography
Vogel was born in Vienna, Austria. He fled Austria with his parents after the Nazi Anschluß in 1938 and at first studied animal husband ...
praises Wakamatsu's artistic talent, yet pans the film for its "...anti-feminist sadism which is not based on any ideological explanation and finally contributes misanthropic flavour to his work."
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1967 films
Pink films
Films directed by Kōji Wakamatsu
1960s pornographic films
1960s Japanese films
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